Kapitel 33: Meeting Team Guy!

Sakura jumped from rooftop to rooftop, scanning the horizon for the familiar sight of the academy building. Where the hell was it, damn it!? She still wasn't used to finding her way around town, and the Hidden Leaf Village was a big place!

Ding! Detecting an unnatural space-time distortion localized in the Host's immediate vicinity! The Host is advised to stay on their guard!

Just as she was about to ask the System what the hell it was talking about, Sakura heard Naruto calling out for her.

"Ooooi! Sakura-chan, down heeeeere!"

Glancing down, Sakura spotted Naruto and Sasuke waiting for her in the academy's courtyard. It looked as though she had made it to the academy in time after all; maybe her sense of direction was better than she'd erstwhile thought!

"Looks like Kakashi got to you in time," said Sasuke coolly.

"I suppose I've got the two of you to thank for getting me out of that sticky situation," said Sakura gratefully.

With their three-man team complete, the trio began joined the crowd that had already formed in the academy's Entrance Hall, and they began ascending the stairs. But after climbing a single flight of stairs, they found themselves stuck in somewhat of a traffic jam.

"How can we already be on the third floor?" Sakura said in confusion as she spotted the throng of people gathered around the door to classroom 301. "We've only gone up one floor."

(For any European readers out there, Japan uses the same storey conventions as the United States, so what you know as the ground floor is the first floor, the first floor is the second floor, etc.)

"Looks like you noticed as well," Sasuke whispered back to her. "As expected of our resident Genjutsu-type specialist."

'Quit rubbing it in!' Inner Sakura hissed. 'We all know the Genjutsu thing never paid off! Well, not if I can help it, shannarooo!'

It's at this moment that Sakura saw some very familiar faces coming up the stairs out of the corner of her eye; it was the members of Team Guy! Sakura quickly took off her forehead protector and gave it a quick wipe. She tried angling it so that she could catch her own reflection in it, but it was still too dirty to reflect much of anything.

(You all know what Team Guy looks like, so I'll spare you the descriptions)

'My hair is a total mess!' Inner Sakura cried in desperation. 'I'm not presentable at all, I never got the chance to wash up, because I got arrested by those stupid Barrier Team guys, shannaroooo!'

Still, Sakura had to try and make a good impression on her waifu Tenten, even though she probably reeked of sweat and dirt, after two days straight of running and sleeping under the stars. Oh, and her hair was probably all twisted and dirty as well…

"Hey, you're Team Guy, right?" Sakura said shyly as they approached. "The rising star rookie team that graduated last year? I'm actually a huge fan—"

But in a shocking turn of events that left Sakura completely gobsmacked, instead of acknowledging her praise, introducing herself, or doing anything along those lines, Tenten instantly closed her eyes and made the Tiger seal.

"Release!" Tenten said clearly, her Chinese-style hair buns wobbling slightly on the sides of her head.

Tenten then cracked open an eye, goggled at Sakura's prodigious bustline some more, before tightly shutting her eye again and repeating, "release!" a few more times.

Why was it that Tenten had attempted to release a non-existent Genjutsu the moment she had seen her breasts? Sakura couldn't help but feel slightly insulted…

"Neji, help me with something," Tenten told her teammate, having finally given up trying to disturb her own chakra flow. "She's using the Transformation Jutsu, right?"

Sakura's face turned bright pink; she immediately turned her back to Neji and crouched down, covering her breasts with her hands.

"I'm not using the Byakugan for perverted purposes," said Neji flatly. "I thought we agreed to keep a low profile, Lady Tenten."

The Byakugan allowed him to see 360 degrees around himself, see chakra and see through obstacles, as if they weren't even there. It was the ultimate sensory Dōjutsu!

"Oi!" Naruto interjected, jumping in between them. "I'll have you know that our Sakura is 100% natural— Ow! What was that for, Sakura-chan!?"

Sakura had promised herself that she wouldn't become a violent woman and smack Naruto around like a rag doll, but there were some things you just couldn't say!

"Oh, come on, Neji," Tenten insisted. "You owe me, so pretty please?"

Neji sighed, before reluctantly activating his Byakugan. Thick veins spider-webbed around his eyes, and his irises became slightly more apparent against his fully white eyes.

"She's not using her chakra at this moment," he sighed, deactivating his Byakugan a moment later. "Her true appearance is as you see it."

Even so, he had observed a relatively large amount of multicoloured latent stamina chakra roiling around in her chest area…

"Eh…" said Tenten in disbelief.

"Sure, just look at me up and down all you want," Sakura said spitefully. "Well, it's not as if I care if you see my naked boobs, Neji. You probably got bored with vanilla stuff like that years ago, you damned peeping Hyūga! No, someone like you probably has more unique tastes, am I right? You like feet, right? You damned foot fetishist."

"That's not true!" Neji said indignantly, unintentionally raising his voice more than he'd meant to. "I'll have you know I love boobs!"

Every single person in the hallway turned to stare at the man who had just publicly declared his undying love for breasts.

I love boobs… I love boobs… I love boobs… I love boobs… I love boobs… I love boobs…

Neji buried his head in his hands in embarrassment, and it's at this moment that Rock Lee chose to walk up to Sakura. Here it was, the confession scene that led nowhere and was never mentioned again except in filler!

"Hi," Rock Lee said confidently, despite fully knowing that he was wearing a ridiculous green onesie. My name is Rock Lee. You're Sakura, right?"

Sakura nodded, and for some unfathomable reason, Lee blushed, before whipping out one of his spare jumpsuits.

"Would you please wear this for me?" he said bashfully.

Sakura's jaw dropped open, while Sasuke facepalmed.

The green onesie was ridiculous, but if someone as curvy as Sakura was the one wearing it… Naruto's nose began to bleed at the thought of Sakura in a skintight suit, and he began taking critical damage before the exam had even begun!